Catalogue description The Incorporated Company of Tailors of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Reference: GU.Ty
Title: The Incorporated Company of Tailors of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Description:

GU.Ty/1/1-3 Ordinary of the Tailors Company and copies, 1536 - 1669 (2 parchments, 1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/2/1-2 Minutes, 1894 - 1945 (2 volumes)

 

Rules and Orders

 

GU.Ty/3 Book of oaths, 1673

 

GU.Ty/4 Abstract of orders from the meeting books, 1678 - 1756 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/5 Copy of Tailors oath, c.1820 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/6/1-9 Notices of stewards to present their accounts, 1825 - 1835 (9 papers)

 

GU.Ty/7 Request to stewards for a meeting to discipline George Watson, 1830 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/8 Resolution that stewards be told of Grainger's proposed improvements, 1834 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/9 Company Secretary's notebook, 1944 - 1954 (1 volume)

 

GU.Ty/55 Bonds for the performance of covenants not to trade as a tailor in Newcastle, 1560 - 1692 (2 parchments, 6 papers)

 

GU.Ty/10/1-5 Company rules, 1890 - 1968 (3 booklets, 1 Typescript, 2 files)

 

GU.Ty/11 Declaration of Thomas Morrison that he is not a member of the Tailors Company, n.d. [c.1800] (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/12 History of the Tailors Company, by Charles James Young, 1909 (1 volume)

 

Orders and agreements of the Common Council of Newcastle Upon Tyne

 

GU.Ty/13/1-7 Orders, 1624 - 1831 (2 files, 7 papers)

 

GU.Ty/14/1-13 Reports and resolutions, 1742 - 1875 (12 papers, 1 booklet)

 

GU.Ty/15/1-14 Petitions, 1797 - 1823 (16 papers)

 

GU.Ty/16/1-2 Petitions to the Tailors Company, 1832 - 1833 (3 papers)

 

GU.Ty/17/1-11 Agreements between the Tailors Company and the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1861 - 1926 (1 parchment, 10 papers)

 

GU.Ty/18/1-10 Opinions given on legal matters, 1731 - 1874 (11 papers)

 

GU.Ty/19/1-3 Papers relating to legal proceedings, 1796 - 1828 (3 papers)

 

GU.Ty/20 Newcastle upon Tyne Town Moor Intakes dispute - proceedings, 1925 (1 booklet)

 

GU.Ty/21 Report of the proceedings of the Tailors Company (Southern Division) relating to a Northumberland Election, 1832 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/22 Deed of covenant between the Newcastle Paint and Varnish Company and F.W. Coverdale; Parker Ismay Ismay and Young and G.R. Patterson to secure payment of rent for land in Monk Street and 54 Low Friar Street Newcastle upon Tyne for 10 years, 1912 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/23 Correspondence with the Freemen of England relating to the Legal Fund, 1972 (4 papers)

 

Finance

 

GU.Ty/24/1-2 Accounts, 1871 - 1966 (2 volumes)

 

GU.Ty/25/1-2 Rental Accounts, 1867 - 1948 (2 volumes)

 

GU.Ty/26/1-7 Abstracts of Accounts, 1800 - 1833 (7 papers)

 

GU.Ty/27 Extracts from the Tailors Company Cash book, 1717 - 1812 (2 papers)

 

GU.Ty/28/1-10 Bills of cost, 1772 - 1856 (30 papers)

 

GU.Ty/29/1-2 Bills of legal costs, 1830 - 1832 (1 file, 4 papers)

 

GU.Ty/30 Promissory notes of the Stewards of the Tailors' Company, 1790 - 1878 (14 papers)

 

GU.Ty/31 Charges for the admission of a Freemans son and an apprentice, 1818 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/32 Notes from a meeting of the Finance Committee, 1822 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/33 Bonds for debt taken-out by the Tailors Company, 1761 - 1854 (38 papers)

 

GU.Ty/34 Report of the Finance Committee on expenditure, 1770 - 1822 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/35/1-3 Registers of tenants with note of their rental account and any arrears, 1817 - 1828 (3 papers)

 

Membership

 

GU.Ty/36 Enrolment book, 1656 - 1909 (1 volume)

 

GU.Ty/37/1-8 Rolls of members, 1825 - 1859 (6 parchments, 2 volumes)

 

GU.Ty/38/1-131 Apprenticeship admissions, 1693 - 1797 (131 papers)

 

GU.Ty/39 NOT USED

 

Property

 

GU.Ty/40 Bargain and sale of the Tailors Hall Pilgrim Street, in Latin. 1560/61 (1 parchment)

 

GU.Ty/41 English translation of GY/Ty40, 1560/61 (1 parchment)

 

GU.Ty/42 Copy bargain and sale of premises in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1561 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/43 Deeds relating to Tailors Company. Property in Pilgrim Street, Manor Chare, and the Friars, 1610 - 1931 (10 parchments, 12 papers)

 

GU.Ty/44/1-8 Schedules of deeds relating to premises owned by the Tailors Company in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1610 - 1958 (8 papers)

 

GU.Ty/45 Specifications and agreements relating to building and repair work on Tailors' Company property, 1724 - 1893 (43 papers, 1 parchment, 1 file)

 

GU.Ty/46 Notices to quit from the Tailors Company to tenants of their property, 1826 - 1833 (3 papers)

 

GU.Ty/47 Correspondence relating to maintainance of Tailors' Company property at Low Friar Street, The Friars, and Monk Street, 1909 - 1938 (1 file)

 

GU.Ty/48 Correspondence relating to 46-56 Friar Street, 1967 - 1972 (2 files)

 

GU.Ty/49/1-8 Plans of Tailors Company property, [c.1800] - 1816 (8 plans)

 

GU.Ty/56 Description of Company Premises in Low Friar Street and the Friars, Newcastle upon Tyne, n.d. [c.1930] (4 papers)

 

GU.Ty/50 Photographs of Tailors Company property in Blackfriars, n.d. [c.1900] (2 photographs)

 

Correspondence

 

GU.Ty/51 Letter from the Mayor of Newcastle re the acceptance of apprentices from outside Newcastle upon Tyne, 1735 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/52 Letter from a pupil of the St James Charity School with thanks for a visit to the Tailors Hall, 1787 (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/53 Letter from William Sissen and John Wood concerning the trading of non-freemen, n.d. [c.1780] (1 paper)

 

GU.Ty/54 General correspondence, 1945 - 1973 (4 files)

Date: 1536-1973
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

The Incorporated Company of Tailors of Newcastle upon Tyne

Physical description: 54 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 98 and 1587

Administrative / biographical background:

The Tailors Company was embodied by its first Ordinary on 8 October 1536. This document laid down regulations for company members with penalties if these were infringed. It also embodied the administrative structure of the Company with its 12 electors, and 4 stewards, 2 searchers and 2 auditors. New ordinaries were created in 1624, 1707, 1731 and 1737.

 

The Tailors Company originally met in the old Dominican monastery at Blackfriars. In 1561 the Company purchased land between Manor Chare and Pilgrim Street to build a new Tailors Hall. This building was in use until 1788 when the old Tailors Hall at Blackfriars was rebuilt. The property in Manor Chare was sold in 1832.

 

The Tailors Company still exists in Newcastle today and some of its members are descendents of the original founding group.

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